THURSDAY, JULY 17TH
Printervention:Exhibition - 6:00PM
@ RHAA
subVersion Summer Camp will open with a selection of prints and posters exhibited in the gallery where most of our Art Building will take place. Most of the works are ones printed by Public Media Institute over the past few decades as well as one created for Summer Camp.
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Meet the Lost Boys - 6:00PM
Hosted by: Lizzy May
@ Co-Prosperity
A performance & a spell: come meet the lost boys and devise a ritual for community, resistance, magic, and mischief. Neverland is an unpoliced world: a space where chosen family and the spirit of the dance floor are guides. We invite you to witness a scene from our queer rewrite of Peter Pan. After the scene, we will guide you to join in spell‑casting, moving with us to weave a ritual of connection and queer magic.
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Hand Coloring LED LIGHTS: A Workshop for a New Muralism - 6:00PM
Hosted by: Jason Lazarus
@ RHAA
This workshop experiments with hand coloring / hand tinting ubiquitous LED storefront lights in service of a new CoProsperity initiative--a community wheatpaste wall (10x30') on the south wall of the building. Workshop attendees will experiment handpainting LED lights to be permanently installed as a new 'diy frame' around this community wall.
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Easy Peasy Papier - Mache 101 for Adults - 6:00PM
Hosted by: Jen Grant
@ 1048 w 37th st. Unit 102
Think outside the piñata! Let's start at the very beginning to learn, collaborate, and experiment with the cheap and cheerful art of papier-mâché. Meet us at Trash Castle for an introduction to the basic tools and techniques pretty much anyone can use to take an idea and turn it into an object.
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The Box - Social Exploration through Community Devising - 7:00PM
Hosted by: Kevin Aoussou
@ Co-Prosperity
This is a workshop to explore our responses to the current moment, inviting artists of all mediums to be in creative exploration. If you are a physical or visual performer, please join us for a community conversation, followed by a community creative jam session!
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Squiggle Build - 8:00PM
Hosted by: Andres Lemus-Spont
@ RHAA
Play, dream, and collaborate to transform familiar materials into imaginative landscapes. Throughout the event, help create (and re-create!) a one-of-a-kind experimental creation—out of pool noodles! Together we can build new spaces and imagine new possibilities.
FRIDAY JULY 18TH
Wealth Simulation - 3:00PM
Hosted by: Alexandria Knapik
@ RHAA
In response to Highland Park’s canceled “poverty simulation,” a controversial event from 2023 designed to give affluent participants a taste of scarcity. WeALtH SiMuLaTiOn gathers creatives to build creative solidarity and explore coalition through critique, humor, play, and shared imagination.
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Mending is Power - 6:00PM
Hosted by: Parvathi Krishnan
@ RHAA
What if the skill to repair the things we wear to death was quite literally at your finger tips? Mending our clothing is empowering. It gives the wearer the choice to extend the life of something they want to keep in their closet and out of the landfills. Learners will gain basic sewing skills like threading a needle and mending techniques like patching or parachute stitching to carry home. Instead of adding a well loved garment to a "to-mend" pile, we can tackle it together one thread at a time!
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Failure as a Doorway - 6:00PM
Hosted by: Madison Mae Parker
@ Co-Prosperity
Failure as a Doorway: A performance lecture on failure inspired by Jose Esteban Munoz, Hanif Abduraqqib, Caroline Polachek, and The Labyrinth.
Part performance lecture, part movement/somatic exploration of failure, and undoing our relationship to perfectionism and production, with a relocation of where our relationship to making might begin.
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The Covenant of The Dead: The Resident Evils of Race,Space, and Decay - 7:15PM
Hosted by: Loran Ditaway
@ Co-Prosperity
A workshop that explores how an apocalypse doesn't have to look like a zombie film or an aggressive war zone but it can also look a lot like the south side of Chicago. So how do we thrive in a disaster that isn't as recognizable? In this workshop we'll break up into three groups, XXX amount of days till, When the Asteroid Hit, and the walking dead. Where we will strategize harm prevention plans while cross examining previous natural disasters, epidemics and human conflicts. We will create a memory map of loss whether of time, inclusion, opportunities, life, and etc specific to our communities. In order to connect the causes of harm so the last group can focus on world building off of our collective memory. What small, medium, and large actions can we take to make our communities more accessible and easier to navigate? While also forming a cycle of habits that can prevent future harm from realizing.
SATURDAY JULY 19TH
Printervention: Wheatpasting - 1:00PM
Hosted by: Marszewski
@ RHAA
Learn how to wheatpaste printed posters and more onto the exterior wall of Co-Prosperity. We will be using prints from the PMI archive as well as those made during the subVersion Summer Camp.
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Neighbors United RISO Poster Build Workshop - 1:45PM
Hosted by: Javier Viñuela
@ RHAA
Neighbors United for Migrant Support is a mutual aid organization based in the First Presbyterian Church which provides free legal services for asylum seekers in their applications. This workshop will host an orientation/teach in on our services directed towards Spanish speakers to be able to conduct interview translations, and to get a network of people to accompany our community members to court, as well as a RISO poster session emphasized on ways of resistance, protest, and informative actions. Overall, this will be an opportunity to connect and build community around a paramount cause in the country nowadays.
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Printervention: Silk Screen Printing - 3:15PM
Hosted by: Hoofprint
@ RHAA
Join members of PMI and Hoofprint to learn how silk screen printing happens. we wil be pulling screens on paper and apparel. Bring whatever you want printed on to get some Summer Camp screens printed onto them.
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Tie Dye Power - 3:00PM
Hosted by: Jim Dye
@ Parking Lot across the street from Co-Prosperity
Show your colors while you are on the street. Learn how to tie dye your own shirt. Intorduction on different ways to tie dye. With a few hours of actually making your own tie dye shirt. Bring your own shirt to the workshop
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Disarming Police: Protest and Direct Action Tactics - 4:00PM
Hosted by: Jerry Boyle
@ Co-Prosperity
Disarming Police: Practical, tactical methods for doing what you want to, with minimal interference from police.
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Summer Camp BBQ - 7:30PM
Co-Prosperity
FREE FOOD!
SUNDAY JULY 20TH
Histories of Counterinsurgency from Latin America - 12:00PM
Hosted by: Katie Zien
@ Co-Prosperity
A discussion of histories of counterinsurgency, with a special focus on the Cold War in Latin America
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Printervention: Wheatpasting (Continued) w/ CHema Skandal!- 12:30PM
Hosted by: Hoofprint & CHema Skandal!
@ RHAA
We continue to wheat paste our Co-Prosperity Wall. We will also set up button making, money stamping and continue to silk screen paper and apparel.
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Sobre las olas - 4:00PM
Hosted by: Juan José Rivas
@ Co-Prosperity
Sound is a ghost: it travels, it seeps in, it transforms, it dissolves. What we inherit doesn’t always make a sound, but it moves through us. Sometimes it sings like a forgotten melody in a fairground. This workshop invites students to dive into the intimate archaeology of their own sonic heritages. Through expanded listening, appropriation, writing, and spontaneous composition, we’ll build a shared soundscape composed of migrations, noise, fractured genealogies, and unfinished harmonies.
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Take It Down, Build It Up: Short Work from Video Data Bank - 7:00PM
Hosted by: Tom Colley
@ Co-Prosperity
This screening of experimental videos highlights work interpretively documenting collective action surrounding the War on Terror, George Floyd protests, Anti-Vietnam War actions, Standing Rock protests, efforts to critique and dismantle Confederate monuments, and an intervention by drag queens at a Donald Trump casino.
MONDAY JULY 21ST
"The Artist as Leader" - 6:00PM
Hosted by: Tom Tresser
@ Co-Prosperity
The Artist As Leader - Say What? It's time to take your creative chops into public life, buster. The Far Right kicked the shit out of the arts during Culture Wars 1990 - and we took it. The result: MAGA America. So, we need you to either run for local office or help someone you respect run. And to do so as a champion of the public sector, science, the rule of law, peace, equity, and creativity. Are you up for the challenge? It's just democracy and the planet on the table. No biggie.
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[Power] Of the People - 6:00PM
Hosted by: Silvia González
@ RHAA
“Ain’t no power like the power of the people…”
What is power? What can an empowered collective build together? What can the act of play teach us about structures of power?
During this teach-in about power and its many implications, we will be playing movement based Theater of the Oppressed games, shaping ideas, and co-creating gestures of possibility. There will be zine templates and collage materials to support visual interpretation from our collective experiences of the hour. Visual and historical models of collective autonomy will be brought in for discussion and include worker and BIPOC led journalism, artists and organizers of the past and present such as Augusto Boal, bell hooks, The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, Emory Douglas, Rebecca Solnit, Robyn Maynard, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Mariame Kaba and more.
“…‘cause the power of the people don’t stop!”
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Climate Wayfinding - 7:30PM
Hosted by: Julia Kim-Cohen
@ Co-Prosperity
Many people are looking at the climate crisis with distress and grappling with the question: “what can I do?” Climate Wayfinding is a proven program created by The All We Can Save Project for holding questions and gaining clarity, courage, and community for our climate journeys. In this mini-workshop, participants will look inward, outward, and forward to identify and activate their unique contributions and explore key capacities for climate engagement.
TUESDAY JULY 22ND
Building Maroon Infrastructures: Counter-territories, Counter-logistics, Survival Programs - 6:00PM
Hosted by: Muindi Fanuel Muindi
@ Co-Prosperity
This workshop explores maroon infrastructures as living, adaptive systems that resist the coercive order of Empire while creating conditions for planetary abolition. Drawing from AbdouMaliq Simone’s concept of “the surround,” we will examine how fugitivity gives rise not only to escape but to world-making—to infrastructures that hold refusal and endurance in dynamic tension.
Using the analogy of a communal meal, the workshop will unpack four interwoven dimensions of maroon life: (1) Administrative Statements as recipes for collective care; (2) Technical Implements as tools for survival, concealment, and mobility; (3) Built Environments as fugitive architectures and escape routes; and (4) Dramatic Elements as the actors and forces shaping maroon dynamics.
Participants will engage historical and contemporary examples—from the Underground Railroad and quilombos to Black Panther survival programs and diasporic counter-logistics—to explore how these infrastructures unsettle dominant systems while prefiguring alternative futures.
This is not a workshop about nostalgia or heritage, but about practice—how we prototype autonomous forms of life under conditions of constraint, through relational tactics of care, evasion, and insurgency. Together, we will trace the rhythms, tools, and spatial strategies through which maroon communities have survived, adapted, and rehearsed the impossible.
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Plant life is abundant and so are you! An invitation to water your relationship with plants - 6:00PM
Hosted by: Lucero Flores
@ RHAA
Seed collection, plant cuttings, food, medicine, nature-based arts! Scarcity mindset is out; creating abundance through relationships with plant life is in! Before you go to the store to buy veggies, flowers, or a new houseplant, learn how you can grow your own with what you already have in your home (or in your friend/neighbor’s home).
(If space allows please include the next two sentences in the blurb/paragraph):
Take small moments to become familiar with plant relatives that surround us. When you’re ready, you can take steps to tend to and share the bounty.
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Screening of 'La montaña', 2023 - 8:00PM
Hosted by: Stephanie Manriquez
@ Co-Prosperity
A film log of the maritime journey of a delegation of seven indigenous rebels from Chiapas to Europe in the midst of the pandemic. During the Atlantic crossing, the story and generational change of the EZLN (Zapatista Army of National Liberation) is narrated, based on the idea that in order to change the world we must first change the way we look at it. Squadron 4-2-1. The documentary will have English subtitles.
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Queer Everyday: Collage & Talk - 8:00PM
Hosted by: Maxim Bulanov
@ RHAA
Queer Everyday is a hands-on workshop where we share stories about queer identity, everyday life, and feeling at home (or not). We start with a talk and short freewriting, then turn words into colorful collage pages for a zine we make together. Come, chat, cut, collage!
WEDNESDAY JULY 23RD
VOZU Workshop - 5:45PM
Hosted by: Stephanie Manriquez
@ RHAA
This is a collective-building workshop of hybrid technological instruments. It is based on the idea of planned obsolescence and tech recycling as a means of resistance. Through the assembly of an auto amplified wind instrument, we will work with recycled materials–electronical residues and obsolete components– to transform them into autonomous sonic devices.
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Raise Your Voice with Intangible Choir - 7:30PM
Hosted by: Julie Pomerleau
@ Tangible Books
Intangible Choir is a community choir that meets twice monthly at Tangible Books. Join us to learn how to raise your voice with energizing vocal warm ups. We'll perform some protest songs and you can sing along with us!
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Perfect Pancakes - Subversive Digital Media = 7:30PM
Hosted by: Holland Willcox
@ Co-Prosperity
A crash-course in creating subversive digital media! After introductions and a brief survey in subversive video history & appreciation, we will demo a writer's room style workshopping session, discuss production design on a small budget, and produce a small simple piece prepared for minimal acting skills. Finally, there will be a screening of "Perfect Pancakes", a subversive daytime talkshow. Participants will build skills and confidence in creating their own subversive media.
THURSDAY, JULY 24TH
Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop - 8:00PM
Hosted by: Daphne Agosin
@ Co-Prosperity
The goal of this workshop is to get to know each other better to develop trust and discover shared goals among colleagues and participants. To build courage together. Courage can come in following up, in patience, in dedication, in healing, in creating... This workshop is meant to reflect on how we confront fears, conflicts and contradictions in a way that can bring us closer instead of apart.
One exciting and special thing about Theater of the Oppressed and devised theater is that everyone is invited fully, not only to follow along, but rather to investigate collective decision-making. We facilitate and not direct; we acknowledge that everyone is a leader in their own endeavors and that is celebrated.
In the equation of oppressed and oppressor, which TO bases its structure in, there is no side we want to be in. No progressive feels content in either spot; we are trying to build systems rid of both entities. But in these workshops people may fall on both ends of those categories, and that is the nature of our organizing times. How much that will affect our work together is another open question to investigate in this workshop.
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Shadow Puppet '2035: BILLIONERS OVERTHROWN' - 9:00PM
Hosted by: Roz Beile
@ Co-Prosperity
A shadow puppet show based on a fictional story where the cyborgs and humans unite to overthrow the billionaire class in 2035. This 10-minute puppet show utilizes poetic justice, as the billionaires die from their own creation, and is narrated with a story book tone. We aim for audience members to leave this comical, artistic, and imaginary show with renewed energy and hope.
FRIDAY, JULY 25TH
The Battle of Halsted: Labor & Justice - 7:00PM
Hosted by: Under the Tree Podcast & Pilsen Community Books
@ Cermak & Halsted
Join us in recreating a pivotal moment in Chicago and labor history! The great labor uprising of 1877 arrived to Chicago and nearly brought the city and it's business titans to its knees -- mass strikes, walkouts, running battles and fiery speeches from labor leaders incited violent reprisals from police and national guard troops resulting in the deaths of over 30 civilians. With striking parallels to our current political moment, our re-enactment of this uprising hopes to ensure that this history and the lives lost are memorialized and the lessons carried forward.
Bass Camp - 8:00pm
Hosted by: Teddy Sandler (tdy)
@Co-Prosperity
Riding the wave of dance. Feel each campy beat with a fab DJ lineup (TBA) of underground selectors and music makers, propelling the next gen of Chicago rave. Sthesia collabs with subVersion to present Bass Camp at Co-Prosperity.
SATURDAY, JULY 26TH
Impulse & Intention: A Mindfulness Collage - 2:00PM
Hosted by: Lily Cox
@ RHAA
This society raises us to lean heavily into impulses that aid the empire and to repress all else. Collage is a beautiful way to lean into impulse through the chosen images, and intentionality through what is fixed to the page. Let’s practice mindfulness through art!
SUNDAY, JULY 27TH
Working 2050: A Sci Fi Journaling Workshop for Hopeful Futures - 12:00PM
Hosted by: H. Kappe-Klote
@ Tangible Books
In this immersive speculative fiction journaling workshop, participants will take on the role of a future worker: maybe you’re a gig nurse for algae farms, a digital janitor scrubbing legacy media, or a community defense baker in a flooded zone. We’ll use writing prompts, somatic cues, and short movement exercises to generate first-person speculative “journal entries” from these future selves. Then, we’ll talk: What does it take to keep working — and caring — in a future built on the wreckage of this one?
We’ll borrow from trauma-informed fitness, somatic narrative, speculative oral history, and very low-tech roleplay.
What you’ll leave with: A written journal entry from your 2050 self, a character sketch for your future working body, some nervous system tools for surviving the present.
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project for a street corner - 2:00PM
Hosted by: Laura Napier
@ Co-Prosperity
“project for a street corner” is a framework for artists/activists to devise creative protest within crowded public space. In this workshop and performance, you will collaborate with a group to create an experimental covert performance to change the behavior of an existing crowd, through your own performative intervention. During the workshop, you will observe a site, discuss how crowds behave within that site, and devise strategies to covertly change crowd behavior through collectively using your own embodied behaviors. Then we will test out our strategies on-site. To map out what patterns emerge, our performative interventions will be video documented from above.
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Chicago Radicalism 101 Bus Tour - 3:00PM
Hosted by: Paul Durica
@ Coprosperity
Explore over a century of civil disobedience in Chicago on this bus tour, from the Lager Beer Riot to the DNC. Learn how the past has made our present and can help us to imagine a just, equitable future.
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Travesuras Colectivas: DIY Art for Resistance - 4:30PM
Hosted by: Alondra Jara
@ RHAA
This two-part workshop explores poster-making as a powerful form of creative expression and collective resistance. Using a range of accessible, DIY approaches- such as printmaking, textiles, collage, and hand-drawn design, we'll create bold posters that reflect defiance, liberation, and imagining new futures in these times.
Open to all skill levels and grounded in values of accessibility, care, and creative autonomy, this workshop centers art as a practice of community-building and liberation. Come to experiment, reflect, and connect!